This seminar series examines the political theology and religious policy of Turkish Islam beyond its borders. The speakers will provide comprehensive analysis of Turkey’s religious activities among transnational Muslim communities and its local reception in Europe, the Balkans, the USA and Africa south of the Sahara. The ethnographic study of transnational Muslim communities featured in this series evaluates the modalities and limits of Turkish political theology by concentrating on the lived experience and diversity of transnational Muslim populations.
Spreading Whose Words? The Political Theology of Turkish-Kurdish Conflict
March 15, 2021 – 12:00pm
Speaker/Performer: Mehmet Kurt, Lecturer, Yale University & amp; Marie Curie Global Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
From the Global to the Local: Turkish Mosques in the National Imaginary
March 29, 2021 – 12:00pm
Speaker/Performer: Elisabeth Becker, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University College Dublin
Turkish Neo-Ottomanist Dreams in the Balkans and the Muslim Minorities
April 12, 2021 – 12:00pm
Speaker/Performer: Serac Sehlikoglu, Senior Research Associate, University College London
The Politics of Believing and Belonging: Internal Diversity among Muslims in Turkey and Muslim Immigrants in Germany
April 26, 2021 – 12:00pm
Speaker/Performer: Gulay Turkmen, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Graz
Teaching the “Turkish Islam” in Africa South of the Sahara: Educational Policies and Sufi Pedagogies
May 10, 2021 – 12:00pm
Speaker/Performer: Ezgi Guner, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Turkey’s (Trans)national Religio-Political Infrastructures: the Directorate of Religious Affairs and the Bureaucratization of Islamic Authority
May 24, 2021 – 12:00pm
Speaker/Performer: Hikmet Kocamaner, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina-Wilmington